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Writers Behind ‘Expats,’ ‘Masters of the Air,’ ‘The Sympathizer’ and More Break Down Inspirations and Working with Authors to Develop Limited Series
At Variety's A Night in the Writers Room, the writers and creators of 2024's most popular limited series discussed how their projects came to life.
While in development for the Amazon Prime drama “ Expats,” creator, writer and director Lulu Wang knew she had to pay tribute to the lives lost during the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Having been in China at that time as a child, she remembers how scared she was when her father nearly left to join the protest which ultimately led to the death of hundreds. For McKellar, he was “really grateful” Viet Thanh Nguyen did not want to be in the room while he was adapting “The Sympathizer” for HBO, adding that he would’ve been “terrified” to work in front of him.
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